The first time you booted up the iMac and didn't get the Welcome window asking you to setup your account for the first time and register the Mac you should have been warned and know to take it back to Best Buy. It it booted into an account then it's not an open stock, new Mac, it's a used Mac.

First time I booted up I "wiped" the hard drive and freshly installed Lion (which, by the way, I paid for, and Apple refused to support). I knew it was used. Used is ok; remote wiping my data is not. Turns out though, the wipe didn't really wipe like a Unix newfs would, because I found the old owners contact data when I used a disk recovery utility to recover the data destroyed by the remote wipe. When I contacted him (because I was concerned the laptop may have been "hot", he proved he legitimately sold it, and said he did not initiate the wipe, even though the Genius bar said the serial number was registered to a last name matching the contact data I found on the drive. Any more assumptions?

So it's been all security theatre, and no actual security, for those following at home.

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